London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953. xxi,427,[1]pp. Colored frontispiece plus thirty-two fine collotype plates. Large quarto. Original buckram, t.e.g. Very good. In worn dust jacket. Number 80 from an edition limited to 400 copies. The most comprehensive work in its field, carefully describing over 600 books, panoramas, periodicals... More

Albany. 1709. [1]p. Folio. Old fold lines, light soiling and wear. Good. Manuscript document detailing the expenses associated with the repair of the old blockhouse in Albany, signed by Albany official Johannes Abeel. Abeel (1667-1711) was an Albany native and merchant who held various local offices, including mayor of Albany... More

Philadelphia: Printed and published, by H. Maxwell, 1804. vii,[3]-53,[1]pp. Half title. Dbd. An occasional bit of foxing. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folding box, spine gilt. Dedicated to Hamilton's widow, Elizabeth. About half the text is a condemnation of the practice of duelling. Heavily footnoted, with allusions..... More

Washington. 1848. 132pp. plus twenty-four lithographed plates. Lacks the folding map. Later pebbled cloth, printed paper label. Scattered foxing. Three plates with small chips at edges, not affecting image. Good. One of the great southwestern government-sponsored explorations, here in its earliest form, according to Wagner-Camp. The lithographed plates, attributed to... More

Oxford. [ 1777]. 64pp. Gathered signatures. Stitched as issued. Untrimmed. Last leaf tanned. Otherwise a very good copy. Fourth edition. A reply to Burke's LETTER...ON THE AFFAIRS OF AMERICA (1777). "...if the liberty of our fellow-subjects in America are to be taken from them, it is for the ideot only... More

Oxford. [ 1777]. 64pp. Dbd. Titlepage a tad dusty, else very good. First edition. A reply to Burke's LETTER...ON THE AFFAIRS OF AMERICA (1777): "...If the liberty of our fellow-subjects in America are to be taken from them, it is for the idiot only to suppose that we can preserve... More

Oxford. [ 1777]. 64pp. Dbd. Titlepage a tad dusty. Else very good. Second edition, after the first of the same year. A reply to Burke's LETTER...ON THE AFFAIRS OF AMERICA (1777). "...if the liberty of our fellow-subjects in America are to be taken from them, it is for the ideot... More

Salem, Oh. Homestead Print, [ca. 1850]. Broadside, 16 x 10 3/4 inches. A few short closed edge tears, light toning and foxing. Very good plus. A rare and striking abolitionist broadside from Salem, Ohio, the seat of the Western Anti-Slavery Society, and a small but important center of progressive movements... More

New York. Dec. 18, 1865. pp.[345]-384. Gathered signatures, string-tied as issued. Ex-Brookline Public Library, with their inkstamps on the first page, else quite clean. Very good. A rare and early periodical printing of the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery, contained in an issue of the NATIONAL FREEDMAN. The text of the... More

Cincinnati: The American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1855. 117pp. Folding woodcut frontis. 12mo. Modern brown cloth, paper label. Old institutional stamp on titlepage. Moderate foxing. Very good. Much later edition, after the first of 1791. A synopsis of the evidence presented to the House of Commons on the slave... More

Copenhagen. 1815. xxxvi,[2],126pp. Extra engraved titlepage plus engraved frontispiece. Later old plain boards. Clean, very good copy. Contains a eulogy for Captain Verner Hans Fredrik Abrahamson (1744-1812) and his son, Ludvig August Abrahamson. The latter spent the years 1783-1810 in the United States. Includes brief biographies of the two men... More

London: Printed by Edward Owen, 1756. 64pp. Modern half morocco over linen boards, spine gilt. Contemporary manuscript annotation on titlepage. Titlepage lightly stained and dusty, internally clean and crisp. A very good copy. A restatement of Britain's claims in the dispute over Nova Scotia and the area south of the... More

London. 1802. Two volumes. xxiv,396; viii,380pp. plus folding map and sixteen plates (five handcolored). Quarto. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Contemporary ownership signature on titlepages. Scattered foxing and toning, some offsetting from plates. Very good. Acerbi was an Italian naturalist and composer, and this record of his travels in... More

Paris. 1616. [8],375,[16] leaves. Early vellum. Titlepage slightly worn at fore-edge. Scattered light soiling. Slight worming in gutter, not affecting text; two wormholes through last few leaves, minutely affecting text in spots. Bookplate of famous collector Alberto Parreno on verso of final leaf. Generally very good. Fourth French edition of... More

Austin: The Encino Press, 1968. ix,56pp. Original pictorial boards. Fine. Edited and with an introduction by Wilson M. Hudson. From an edition limited to 750 copies. Signed by the editor on front fly leaf. The first publication of this early work, predating Adams' first book.More

Westminster: Constable, 1905. 371pp. Frontis. Gilt pictorial cloth. Spine darkened. Very good. First edition, British issue, comprised of American sheets in a British binding. An uncommon variant of an early title.More

Boston. 1904. 355pp. plus illus. Frontis. Original pictorial cloth. Some wear to extremities, foredge of some leaves rather ragged due to careless opening, else very good. Fictional reminiscences of a cowman in Texas and the Southwest.More

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930. [6] preliminary pages followed by [14]pp. of text and twelve original mounted photographs, printed on Dessonville paper by Ansel Adams, various sizes to 9 x 6 1/2 inches, each with a corresponding caption leaf. Large folio. Publisher's half tan morocco and cloth, spine with raised... More